Afternoons in Utopia @ikkleosu - Tumblr Blog

Make bad art!! On your nice paper!! “Waste” your nice markers on a drawing of SpongeBob!! Use that nice fabric even though you might fuck it up!! Create things despite the risk of wasted materials and time!! Practice using your fancy yarn!! Doodle bullshit instead of making nice art to sell all the time!! It’s good for your brain!! Write a dumb song about a sandwich for a change, it doesn’t have to be a deep love song to be worth your time!! CREATE BULLSHIT ITS GOOD FOR YOU!!

#i need to hear this

mindibindi

♥ Caryl Textposts: Season 10 Edition [i] [ii] ♥

mobius-m-mobius

#how it started vs. how it's going 🥺💖

enabuns

The way that Poster reveal woke my ass up like a sleeper cell. I missed drawing them so much💙

crowleysgirl56

I honestly can’t get over this one. I’ve liked and shared it on practically every platform I’ve seen it on now!

mindibindi

♥ Caryl Textposts: Season 10 Edition [i] [ii] ♥

#Caryl #still has a hold #even though...you know

ikkleosu

Norman Reedus is Repeatedly Problematic

CW: Sexual assault, misogyny, transphobic language

I see some people are discovering today about Norman Reedus’ friendship with Marilyn Manson, along with his support for Johnny Depp, and that he is vanity searching his own name on twitter.

(Something he does all the time, a quick look at his likes tells you this. During all the controversy about the spin-off, he has MANY fans tagging him with support and begging for attention, but he ignored them and just was vanity searching his own name, blocking many)

I thought due to this it was time to post an unfinished post I have had in my drafts for over 8 years. I am embarrassed that I kept ignoring this stuff in order to support the ship but hopefully this will help others.

Remember that time Norman and Sean Patrick Flanery manhandled a Japanese fan between them like she was a ragdoll, exposing her ass to the world in the process?

http://ikkleosu.tumblr.com/post/70753988709/a-pathetic-fangirl-oh-boys-is-there-an

It should also be noted, Norman has had a long very close friendship with Flanery who delights is retelling the gross prank he played on Norman where he made him think he was going to be attacked and raped by a stranger, amongst much other problematic behaviour.

https://aclockworkashley.tumblr.com/search/sean

https://shineuntiltomorrow.com/norman-reedus/reedus-lost/

Remember that time Norman worked with Terry Richardson long after the photographer has been exposed as a repeated sexual abuser?

Remember when Norman went through a phase of fake strangling women he’d just met in photos without asking them if it was okay, or if they were comfortable with it?

http://ikkleosu.tumblr.com/search/strangling

Remember when Norman was still using the “t” slur in 2017?

Also here in 2014, where frankly there’s so much disturbing stuff:

(GQ interview October 2014)

Remember that time Norman called the Duck Dynasty dudes “pretty sophisticated” AFTER their homophobic and racist rants?

Remember that time Norman revealed that an actress (Dagmara Dominczyk) being scared, nervous and shaking during a sex scene turned him on?

Remember how Norman refused to denounce his very close friend Marilyn Manson, even after Evan Rachel Wood had given her deposition And in fact, he deleted comments and blocked fans who brought it up?

(redited because the majority of screenshots didn’t come through for some reason!)

ikkleosu

CW: Transphobia

Adding further evidence to his use of the T slur. He uses it as the title of a piece of art, which is a screengrab from the short video he directed mentioned above.

Norman Reedus Photograph (note url contains the T word)

Also here is the short video itself: CW: violence, misogyny, sexually explicit

https://youtu.be/fZP4k8psmfI

Edited 30 Nov 2025:

ikkleosu

"I would never allow anything like that around me"

flavwaddingham

Audrey and Siegfried: This Love.

A tale narrated by Sister Rose.

ikkleosu

This scene has tipped me into full shipper mode. Beautiful, and just how a slow burn should be written. I love that is shows npt just that Audrey is falling but that she imagines an outcome.

chelsie-carson

I still ship it … on Phyllis Friday!

ikkleosu

For the love of God Netflix. BBC someone, give us a Lovejoy TV movie where Jane and Lovejoy can finally live happily ever after together!

#lovejoy

wistfulwatcher

galindaelphaba

YELLOWJACKETS SEASON 3 APPRECIATION WEEK

day seven: free choice -> yellowjackets season 3: a meme summary (insp)

galindaelphaba

YELLOWJACKETS SEASON 3 APPRECIATION WEEK

day six: song association

sandersstudies

Hey, you reblogged that AI post and I was surprised to see something so mean on your blog. "If you cant write unassisted, fuck you, youre a disgrace to the community." Is that really something you want on your blog?

Just in case this isn't a spam message:

Posting AI-generated content to a platform intended to be an archive for writers is not appropriate use of the platform. On a platform intended for human creation, it is rude and inappropriate to clog search results with AI-produced content which often plagiarizes the work of human authors.

Use of generative AI is also horrible for our environment, leading to massive waste of fossil fuel energy and water. We should not be doing damage to our planet for the sake of generating (robot-produced, often plagiarized) fiction, especially when the joy of fiction comes from the creation and emotion of real people.

Rather than giving a prompt to a generative AI, people should consider attempting to write their own work, or asking another writer from the fandom if they would be interested in writing it. Anyone who is capable of typing a prompt into ChatGPT is capable of writing a story. The first attempts may not be amazing, but that is true of any skill, and anyone can improve with time and practice - and while ChatGPT may give you big returns in your time, it doesn't give you practice, growth, or creativity, which is where the joy of writing should come from.

fofflesnave

To add to this, generative AI isn't an assistant for disability. Something that assists you helps you complete a task. You do the task yourself, the thing assisting you just helps you manage parts that aren't possible for you. Assisted writing could be using dictation, using a screen reader, relying on a spellchecker, typing instead of writing by hand, etc.

You aren't doing the writing yourself if you use generative AI. You're offering up a single sentence and asking a machine to steal the hard work of others so you don't have to actually write anything. The hard work you steal may well belong to people who actually need assistance with writing, and absolutely will not appreciate seeing the struggles they overcame being turned into slop for others to claim as their own.

Enjoy the creative process. Be part of the creative process. Don't become reliant on AI to the point where you can't think, create or act for yourself. This is why AI isn't an assistant. It takes independence and from you, instead of helping you realise it. It convinces you that you can't do things, instead of helping you try. It tells you to just leave it all to the machines and don't bother yourself with the fun (and struggles) of creating.

sl-walker

If you use generative AI, fuck you.

shadowmaat

Generative AI generates content. That means the person using it isn't doing the work themselves. And that means it isn't a tool, it's a bypass. And it's a bypass used by lazy, entitled people who are more interested in "content" than in telling a good story. People who want headpats for being "creative" when they're so unoriginal they can't even do the work themselves.

Spellcheck, voice-to-print, screen readers, etc. aren't "AI," they're tools. They are what writers use to help capture their stories that they wrote. The writer does all the real work of creating and then uses tools to assist them in getting it down properly. Folks who try to lump it all together with shit like chatgpt are deliberately arguing in bad faith so that they can their machine-generated bullshit behind real tools that actually help.

angstandhappiness

SO TRUE

mama-qwerty

To repeat an oft seen quote:

"Why should I bother reading something you didn't bother to write?"

AI isn't 'helping' you write. It isn't 'assisting' you. It isn't some tool for disabled people. You're telling it what you want, and it's stealing words from other sources to string together a story. All you're doing is slapping your name on it to post online for back pats and high fives.

Just as an art AI isn't 'creating' that picture for you, it's stealing bits and pieces from other artists to copy and paste it together in some semblance of a (kinda sorta) cohesive image.

I'm sick of this argument that AI 'helps' new writers or artists. It doesn't. It's actually stunting your ability to USE YOUR OWN BRAIN and come up with scenarios and stories on your own. And every fic or fanart that's posted using AI just clutters up the space for those of us who write and draw each line ourselves.

We're not being "ableist". Miss me with that bullshit. We--as in, those of us who actually write and draw with our own brains--are having a hard enough time getting eyeballs on our work, so having AI created slop filling our spaces makes us testy.

We work really hard on our craft. Don't demean it by claiming your computer generated content is in any way equal.

pirate-of-the-southern-isles

A long time ago, when I was in an elementary school - I think it was around 2005 - you could just make yourself a blog. For free. In fact, you could have as many blogs as you please. It was a service from one of the most popular websites here. And boy, did we have a lot of those.

It was before I have learnt about fanfiction.net. It was way before Ao3. It was the place where the fanfics were born for us.

There was a popular fanblog for one of the most beloved franchises in my country. It even won an official contest for the best fansite. And it hosted their own contest for "a character's diary" type of fanfics. We were to write new stories and post it, first person POV, and they were choosing the best in their category.

I won in one and I was there, writing, for... not sure how long, but at least a year, having great fun. But it's not about me.

Thanks to that, I've found another blogs with fanfics. One of them - with a story exclusively of my favourite characters.

And I just want to say - it was one of the most formative experiences of my life.

I loved this story. I loved this story so much I was using all of the prepaid card money on my Nokia to read even a small glimpse of the newest update when on vacation and away from my PC (let me remind you, it was 2005!). I actually became friends with the author and we are in contact to this day.

This fanfic was so, so important for me.

Was it good? It was a story written by middleschooler for another middleschoolers. But for me it was the best. Was it popular? No, it wasn't. I mean... it was 2005. The "popularity" in today's terms wasn't really reachable for us. Why was it so big for me? Because it was about my favourite blorbos! For us, back then, it was the whole world. It was our happy place. It was my happy place.

What I want to say is - you never know, if something you write, however small, won't become this Very Important Thing in someone's life. Maybe not one of the milestones, but a comfort fic. A thing you remember when you get sad. Something significant- even for one person.

I don't know if anyone else remembers that blog and the story it held. It is long gone.

But I can still, 20 years later, recall all the names of the OCs.

That's the power you hold.

Keep writing.

livelovecaliforniadreams

#THEY SHOULD HAVE HAD SEX #I will die on this hill #I just pretend they did

livelovecaliforniadreams

Favorite Otps/Pairings: Brandon Walsh & Andrea Zuckerman (Beverly Hills, 90210) “You never cease to amaze me, you know that? Thank you, sir. I do my best.”

#brandon x andrea